Joan Miró

The eighty-five works that constitute the Miró Collection of the Portuguese State have been loaned to Porto City Council for a period of twenty-five years and are on deposit at the Serralves Foundation. Spanning six decades of activity, from 1924 to 1981, and including paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and tapestries by the famous Catalonian artist Joan Miró, the Collection takes the physical nature of the media and the transformation of pictorial language as the foundation of the artist’s visual oeuvre, which has left a decisive imprint on twentieth-century art production.

Since September 2016, Serralves has organised three seminal exhibitions of artworks taken from this Collection: Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis, at the Serralves Villa (2016), the Ajuda National Palace (2017–18) and Fondazione Bano, Padova, Italy (2018); Joan Miró and the Death of Painting, at the Serralves Villa (2018–19), and Joan Miró: The Language of Signs, at the Palazzo delle Arti, Naples, Italy (2019–20). All the exhibitions were curated by Robert Lubar, a world-renowned researcher of Joan Miró’s oeuvre, and were accompanied by three important publications.